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Cinder & Glass
Melissa de la Cruz
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-32665-7
Keywords: palaces, rules of court, treachery, love, LGBTQ+, France
Cendrillon, ingenue of the court of France, struggles with her father's death and the loss of stature and freedom under her stepmother's treacherous guardianship.